By Jason Busch on August 11, 2010
My own state of Illinois has banned the use of reverse auctions in the telecom and construction industries because of the good-old-boy supplier system of graft and corruption. Incidentally, if you want to read a hilarious spoof pi…
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged BIDS, Chicago, construction, corruption, Illinois, India, procurement, Reverse auction, tender
By Tom Raftery on June 30, 2010
I had one of the most interesting calls of my RedMonk career last week. It was with Steve Lewis, CEO and co-founder of Living PlanIT (ignore the fact that they are using SilverLight on their homepage – that is prob because of Steve’s Microsoft background). Living PlanIT are just coming out of […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged construction, Green building, Living PlanIT, microsoft, paredes, redmonk, Sustainability, sustainable urbanisation, sustainable urbanization
By R "Ray" Wang on June 4, 2010
Acquisition Consolidates Two Market Leaders In The Project Based Solutions Market
Deltek announced on June 3rd that they would acquire Maconomy for $72.7M ($3.39/share (DKK 20.50)). Maconomy is a leading project based solutions (PBS) software company (~35.6M 2009 revenues) based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Deltek is a 265.8M (2009 revenues) PBS software vendor based in Herndon, VA. […]
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